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COSMIC Function Points
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COSMIC Function Points

by Reiner Dumke, Alain Abran
April 2016
Intermediate to advanced
356 pages
11h 28m
English
Auerbach Publications
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252 ◾  COSMIC Function Points: Theory and Advanced Practices
© 2011 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
4.3.3 The Advantage of COSMIC FFP in This Environment
In the rst version of the process model, not all data interaction is known. But the
description of the process is detailed enough to classify a process into one of the
four categories of the rened approximate COSMIC FFP. Based on only the pro-
cess model, it is possible to get an early estimate of the size of a process chain with
an uncertainty of 20 to 30%.
Most early sizing techniques are based on information about the data (Meli
2002). In this environment the process model was designed before the data model,
which means that FPA-based techniques can only be used in a later stage.
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